Neither answered.
“You keep making decisions for women and calling it love.”
Richard’s face hardened.
Julian’s collapsed.
I looked toward the garden.
“My mother said no, so Richard decided she deserved consequences.”
I turned toward the house.
“My grandfather loved me more than anyone in this world, but he still decided I didn’t deserve the truth about my own childhood.”
Then I looked at Julian.
“And you decided I could survive being abandoned because you had already calculated that the money would make it worth it.”
“Claire…”
“You didn’t trust me enough to choose with you.”
That sentence finally silenced him.
